@Nonilex In my probably too-long lifetime, the person who did the most for 1st amendment rights was not a politician. It was Hustler publisher Larry Flynt. This will do a world of good.
Last June, #Texas Gov #GregAbbott signed into #law#HB1181, a bill requiring companies that offer “sexual material harmful to minors” to verify that its users are ≥18.
Companies that need to limit access by minors…, commonly use #AgeGating methods like requiring a user to list their DOB. TX’s law required users to prove their age by either entering info from a govt-issued ID or using a 3rd-party sys that uses public & #private#data —like employment, education or mortgage info— to verify age.
#HB1181 also required #porn sites to display a controversial “health warning,” which the #law’s opponents called “pseudoscientific.” They included language like: “#TEXAS HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES WARNING: Pornography increases the demand for prostitution, child exploitation, & child pornography.”
While the #FifthCircuit upheld the age verification portion of the #law, it struck down the health warning req, ruling that it “unconstitutionally compelled plaintiffs’ speech.”
@Nonilex Let's see if this wakes up the MAGA crowd in Texas to the fact that white nationalists want to take away their porn. I hope they also take away beer.
@Nonilex Well they have to call it a victory, they are about to have a huge number of horny frustrated citizens in a #ForcedBirthState that can get more guns easier than their porn fix. They will either start looking for someone to blame or learn what VPN’s are extremely quickly.